Kara Kahnke
I’m a writer with a passion for micro and flash fiction. Published in BULL, The Citron Review, Under the Gum Tree, Raw Lit, Micromance Magazine and other places. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominated.
- The results are in! Congratulations, everyone!
- The results of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize are finally here! We have 11 wonderful finalists. And (drumroll): Third Prize winner: @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Second Prize: @travisflatt.bsky.social First Prize: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social ⭐ www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
- I’m so honored to have a story on this amazing list. Congratulations, everyone! Thank you, @smokeLong!
- Hard decisions. The SmokeLong Workshop Prize entries are all so good. Help us celebrate our shortlist! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
- Congratulations, Sage! This story is amazing! I’m glad it found such a fantastic home.
- DREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona... #FlashFiction #FlashLit
- Inspiration is often a bad word in the disability community. Great job, Apple! youtu.be/KmFPWxjmnqE?...
- This isn’t about me, but it’s so fun I had to share it. Congratulations, @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social! ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
- My dad made an Instagram for his guitar pick art! www.instagram.com/markkahnke?i...
- Yay for FlashGiving with @smokelong.bsky.social!
- It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
- Happiness is when my awesome new writing books accidentally match my apartment’s color scheme.
- I’m so proud of my dad! A T.V. reporter in Minnesota did a story about his guitar pick art. www.fox9.com/news/former-...
- Here is my CNF piece about an experience I had with my disability in college. I’m grateful to BULL for publishing it. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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- This is a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing it, @the-big-quiet.bsky.social.
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 14. Since I have a journalism degree, I couldn’t resist posting this one. “Be hungry, we’re told. Professor Michael’s paces like he’s caged. Chase down leads. Go deeper. . .” “TK” by Sara Lippmann 2013 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/201308TK.htm
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 13 This piece sums up years of a relationship in one sentence, and also brings everything full circle. Amazing. “It’s Happened to Everyone” Bezalel Stern 2015 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/201502everyo...
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge Day 12 A beautiful and poetic ghost story. “There were ghosts in the woods that lived as birds do.” “There Go Birds” by Peter Markus 2020 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/202004birds....
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 11 A beautiful fairytale with hope for a better world. “…and then it’s all just lightness, forever.” “In This World, They’re Married” by Ashlynn Perez in Wigleaf 2024 wigleaf.com/202409world....
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 10. A beautiful disability-focused piece. “Our daughter imagined how the blind read with the touch of a finger. She asked which words were written in the creases of trees’ bark.” “Dusk” by Andrew Siegrist Wigleaf in 2024. wigleaf.com/202401dusk.htm
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge Day 9 The tension in this piece is heartbreaking. “God says happiness is complicated and bad for business.” Uncertain Bodies by Kate Tooley in Wigleaf 2023. wigleaf.com/202301bodies...
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 8. Here’s some more quiet happiness. “We will lie in our bed in the dark gray dawn and listen to the birds sing and swear it is the first time we have heard them.” “Tonight, We Are Awake” by Melissa Goode in Wigleaf in 2018. wigleaf.com/201802tonigh...
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 7. There are so many beautiful lines in this. “Over the four months she had imagined language, it had gained shimmering spires and immense glass floors.” “Noise” by Ellen Ellis in Wigleaf 2019. wigleaf.com/201903noise....
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 6 This is an amazing way to explore desire. “I Did All the Asking” by Emily James from Wigleaf in 2019. wigleaf.com/202301asking...
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 5. I love this quiet moment of happiness in “Soap” from Katrina Denza from 2008 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/200804soap.htm
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 4. I love how strange and imaginative this one is. “Miracle Cake” by Ravi Mangla from Wigleaf in 2008. wigleaf.com/200810cake.htm
- This story is amazing! Congratulations, Cole! @nomad-sw18.bsky.social
- @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 3. This one isn’t from long ago, but I love the dreamy time travel. “I’m in Love with the Cave Man” Epiphany Ferrell 2024 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/202403cavema...
- @smokelong.bsky.social One more for Archive Challenge day 2. I love the language in this one. “It was a shaky morning, infested with car horns…” Howie Good “Hitchhiking Through the Apocalypse” 2016 in Wigleaf wigleaf.com/201612hitch....
